Project

EXPLORE & VALORIZE 24-25

Code
13v16724-32
Duration
01 September 2024 → 31 August 2025
Funding
Federal funding: VLIR-UOS
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Health geography
    • Social geography
  • Engineering and technology
    • Intelligent transportation systems
    • Transport planning
    • Transportation impact analysis
    • Environmental and sustainable planning
    • Smart cities
Keywords
Intelligent transportation systems Big Data Smart Mobility transportation planning Sustainable Mobility policy planning Smart city decision making for sustainable development
 
Project description

Project aims to address is the role of digital twins and emerging technologies in the context of smart cities and smart mobility, particulary focusing on the aspect of sustainable mobility and Sustainable mobility indicators, co-developted by UGent's research team. These results have had a significant impact, resulting in endorsement from European commission, impact on Civitas initiative and ability to map and measure different urban interventions and their impact on sustainability. Furthermore, these indicators are now mandatory to be used on the TEN-T network for evaluation of the introduced measures. And while, across EU, this research results have had a significant impact, there is still lack of knowledge and benchmarking regarding their applicability in significantly different contexts (particularly across Global South regions). On the other hand, such communities invest significant efforts in advancing their mobility systems and aim to do so in an sustainable manner. However, due to lack of contextualised references, the re-use of existing sustainable mobility indicators is challenging as baseline is different, availability of SUMPs (Sustainable Mobility Plans) varies, socio economic context is not directly replicable, as well as the available data/technology options. The project aims to explore the possibility to mitigate these bottlenecks by joining efforts from UGent and Global South partner (ITB), by exploring the transferability of the sustainable mobility indicators, local and global context mapping, potential contribution of digital twin developments in the given context and exploring the gap of sustainability resources and impacts between EU and Global South (Indonesia as a case).